Words Quotes - page 9

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. (Paul Valéry)
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. View quote
Frank McCourt
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. View quote
Eric Idle
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! View quote
Samuel Adams
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. View quote
John Dryden
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express. View quote
William Cobbett
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. View quote
Beatrix Potter
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. View quote
John Fowles
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes. View quote
Cole Porter
Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. View quote
Jeff Buckley
Solitude may rust your words. (Anaïs Nin)
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. View quote
André Maurois
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. View quote
Cyril Connolly
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!' View quote
Emo Philips
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. View quote
Charles Reade
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. View quote
Woody Allen
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling. (Eddie Izzard)
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed. View quote
Dorothy Parker
The words of the world want to make sentences. View quote
Gaston Bachelard